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  • Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek's new band has won over music lovers with its warm, woozy sound. Hear Whitney play songs from Light Upon The Lake live in Philadelphia.
  • Producer Blake Mills brings a new sound to the California band's fifth album. Hear Taylor Goldsmith and company perform live in the World Cafe studio.
  • There's a relentless antagonism to Total Abuse that is so, so satisfying. The Texas band's new album Excluded is a mud-slop synthesis of sludgy noise, lunging rhythms and oddly catchy hooks.
  • After 35 years, the three women who make up this Japanese band have cemented their status as cult heroes and pop-punk icons.
  • The host of WDET-FM's Essential Music highlights Detroit's top five new acts for Sense of Place. The chosen musicians range from atmospheric roots rockers to a '50s-pop-inspired band led by a 16-year-old.
  • The group has transformed its ambient Americana sound into grand arrangements for full band. Watch The War on Drugs perform songs from its new album Lost in the Dream in the KEXP studios.
  • The piano-driven Southern rock band performs songs from its new album, Essential Tremors — the title of which relates directly to the band's lead singer and upright pianist.
  • The Dublin four-piece band sings clever lyrics in loud and proud Irish accents.
  • Unfazed by a hasty set-up, the Canadian folk band plays a tight, polished live set.
  • Vancouver's New Pornographers is a band made up of musicians who have their own projects in the works on the side, but the band still manages to put out catchy and witty material.
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